you in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of sins and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." If their being baptized implied their concurrent or previous faith, such language was appropriate; but it would have been dangerous to employ such language to those whose baptism was a mere registration of learners. So also the historian scruples not to speak of any of the baptized as believers. When they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women." "Many of the Corinthians hearing, believed, and were baptized." Had Dr. Halley's system been that on which they acted in those days, this last text would have read, we suppose, "Many of the Corinthians hearing, were baptized, and admitted to instruction."

When a man has put on a beautiful garment which had been previously hidden in his wardrobe, its excellence becomes perceptible to those around him. It was a treasure before, it is now also an ornament. So, the baptized believer has openly avowed his reliance on Christ, and desire to be known as his. In submitting to this ordinance he has declared himself to be not only a disciple of this teacher, but a servant of this Lord, a dependant on this gracious benefactor, a worshipper of this incarnate God. To a company of such confessors it may be said in the expressive language of Paul to his Galatian friends, "As many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ."

The Bible of Every Land. A History of the Sacred Scriptures in every Language and Dialect into which Translations have been made: illustrated with Specimen Portions in Native Characters; Series of Alphabets: Coloured Ethnographical

Maps, Tables, Indexes, &c. Dedicated by permission to his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury. London: Samuel Bagster and Sons. 4to. Part XII.

HAVING directed attention to the preceding portions of this curious work as they have successively appeared, we have now the pleasure to announce its completion. It is appropriate that it should be presented to the public in the year of the Great Exhibition, for it is itself an exhibition as unprecedented and as wonderful as that display of the industry and art of the civilized world. We hear much of "progress," but this book is the most decisive manifestation of progress that has ever yet been seen. To all croakers it says impressively in the language of Solomon, "Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this." In no earlier age of the world, call it Augustan, or golden, or what you may, could such a work as this have been produced. The written communications of the true wisdom were never at any preceding time set before mankind in so many languages or in such a diversity of forms, as are here presented to our view. Regarded merely as a literary work it is a marvellous production, but regarded as an indication of the progress made in furnishing the sowers of all nations with the good seed of the kingdom it is beyond all comparison delightful. The languages of the earth are divided into eight classes,-Monosyllabic-Shemitic -Indo-European - Ugro-Tartarian Polynesian-African-American—and

Mixed. These are subdivided into numerous branches. Under these are ranged individual languages, specimens of versions of the scriptures are given, and of the alphabets in which they are printed. Other particulars will be told best in the words of the editor

"The arrangement of the whole work is in strict conformity with the latest discoveries in ethnology; for, although the one grand object of displaying the history of the scriptures has never been departed from in these pages, the origin and condition of the nations to whom special versions have been vouchsafed, and the distinguishing characteristics of the languages into which have been transferred the words of Him who 'spake as never man spake,' have passed under careful review.

"The elements of these languages, the stock or stocks from which they sprang, and their affiliation with other languages, have been examined more or less in detail; and the singular precision with which all languages range themselves, according to the order of their mutual affinities, into classes, families, and subdivisions, is exhibited by means of our Tables of Classification, perhaps the first of the kind compiled in our language.

respecting the original unity of language.

"This volume is illustrated by specimen, portions of all the extant and attainable versions of the scriptures, printed in their own proper characters.

"The maps appertaining to the several sections of the work exhibit the geographical location and extent of each language, and likewise show how far the divine light of the holy scriptures, in the vernacular languages of the

natives, shines over the world.

"It has been attempted, also, from the mass of missionary and epistolary evidence existing, to draw conclusions respecting the effects which may have followed the perusal of special versions of the scriptures. All reasonings on this subject, however, even with the most ample opportunities of forming as far as possible a correct judgment, can at best be but approximations towards the truth. Known only to God is the number of His spiritual worshippers. The word of God is still quick and powerful, in every tongue and among every nation, and it cannot return unto Him void: therefore let us in the morning sow our seed, and in the even

ing withhold not our hand.' The question which shall prosper, this or that, or whether they shall both alike be good, is one of the secret things which belong unto the Lord most High."

"The work has thus in some degree assumed the character of an ethnological manual, and as such it may possibly prove a stepping-stone to those who desire to pass from the study of two or three isolated languages to the enlarged consideration of language in general, and of the laws upon which all languages are constructed. Such investigations, if laboriously, patiently, and honestly conducted, can lead but to one result, the affinities by which families and even classes of languages are linked together being so close and intimate, that the more deeply they are examined, the more profound becomes age the conviction of the truth of the theory | Spiritual Railway for the year 1852.

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and, third, the influence requisite to secure its correct impartation to others. He then maintains that inspiration is something different in kind from all the phenomena of mere natural excitement and of genius; that it is not to be The lectures comprised in this volume confounded with the clear perception of divine form a worthy memento of the inauguration truth resulting from superior piety; that in of the New College, built by our congregational the case of the apostles it appears to have been brethren at St. John's Wood. The first lec- continuous and abiding,-not confined to the ture by the Rev. Dr. Harris, the Principal, is impartation of new truths, but extending to an elaborate and thoughtful production on the the whole of the apostolic teaching; that it Inspiration of the Scriptures. He first endea- related pre-eminently to their thoughts; and vours to answer the question, What is the that they wrote under the distinct consciousbiblical idea of inspiration? In doing this he ness of their inspiration. Inspiration, theredistinguishes revelation from inspiration; and fore, as distinct from revelation, Dr. Harris analyzes the process of the transmission of defines to be, "subjectively considered, a superdivine truth through the prophet to the general natural state of mind consciously resulting from mind, into, first, the objective truth presented, the direct agency of the Holy Spirit, and deor the revelation, then, the subjective illumi- signed to secure the oral and written communation enabling the prophet to understand it,-nication of such truth, and in such a manner,

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carefully revised by Dr. Eadie, and brought
down to the important discoveries of the
sent time. The work enters sufficiently into
detail to be interesting and useful, without
overloading the memory by masses of legendary
matter. There are nearly two hundred illus-
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Manual of the Anatomy and Physiology of the
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originality as to its statements, but merely for the manner of their presentation. It seeks to furnish a popular exposition of the various mental phenomena, which shall be adapted to those who, without aiming at an enlarged scientific acquaintance with the subject, desire to be put in possession of the elements of this most interesting and important branch of knowledge. This object it worthily accomplishes; coinciding in general with the views of Sir W. Hamilton and the ablest of our modern thinkers, His analysis is, for the most part, good; though the arrangement or classification, if it may be called so, is by no means satisfactory. It however furnishes one of the best "manuals" with which we are acquainted; and as such we cordially recommend it.

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Olympus and Its Inhabitants: a Narrative
Sketch of the Classical Mythology. With an
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Names and Attributes of the Divinities,
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This little volume is not intended to take the

place of Lempriere, much less of Smith's ad-
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mythological allusions which are to be found in
to furnish a key to the almost innumerable
every volume of poetry and every gallery of
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cation"-who have not felt the desirableness of
such knowledge, when unable to appreciate these
productions of genius on account of their ig-
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the main facts without at all encroaching on
compiled; written in an easy style; and tells
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This though dedicated to Sir John Herschel, is not a treatise on astronomy, but the life of a self-taught student of that science, a resident in Hessenland, a territory of about one hundred miles in length and breadth, in the circle of the Upper Rhine, singularly rich in natural productions, both mineral and vegetable. It was the refuge of faithful followers of Christ who were driven from Flanders and France in the times of distress which succeeded the Reformation. We have here an interesting account of one who was a partaker of the spirit of his worthy ancestors, and it is said to be substantially true.

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present year are well selected. There are two series; one from the evangelical narrative; the other for those teachers who require two lessons in the same day, from Genesis, Exodus, and Numbers. We earnestly advise the adoption of these lessons in every school, accompanied as they are with Notes for the assistance of teachers in interpreting the sacred text, published always a month in advance.

Stories of Scotland and its Adjacent Islands. By Mrs. THOMAS GELDART, Author of "Truth is Everything." London: A. Hall, Virtue, and Co. 12mo. PP. 173.

The Youth's Magazine or Evangelical Miscellany for the year 1851. Vol. 14. Fourth Series. London: Houltson and Eloneman, 12mo., pp. 564.